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By Greg Barns, published 23/10/2008Mr Rudd is looking jelly backed on the matter of the death penalty. His moral conviction has been put to the test and he has buckled.
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I suggest that he would be very, very stupid if he did try to intervene in the well-deserved executions of Bali bombers. Any PM who did try to anything at all to save the murderous animals who slaughtered 88 Australians would not survive the ire of the electorate.
The “principled moral position” referred to by Barns concerns his own warped and well known lack of concern for victims. The most recent example of his siding with the bad guys was his petulant outburst about the ‘human rights’ of recently convicted terror planners here.
The rubbish of Julian McMahon’s that he quotes: ““executing the Bali bombers we are giving them what they want - martyrdom, glory and hero-status. Instead, the better deterrent, the more effective punishment, the thing they don’t want, is life imprisonment”, has now worn see-through thin.
The Bali bombers don’t want martyrdom; they want their lives, and they have now run out of appeals proving that they are not interested in martyrdom. Barns, McMahon and others of their kind totally ignore the fact that these cowardly little creeps have been fighting for life, not martyrdom!
And, if McMahon believes that Rudd would win respect in our region, as Barns claims he said, by sticking his nose into the affairs of other countries on the death penalty, he is as barking mad.
The more terrorists we put to death, the fewer there will be.
Martyrdom is too fine a label to put on unhinged mass murderers. It has no meaning to them